The word ‘massage’ comes from the French ‘friction of kneading’ (its first use has been traced to 1876), and the French verb masser, ‘to massage,’ possibly corrupted from Arabic massa ‘to touch, feel, handle’; if so, it was probably acquired during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt.
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